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Of ships and stars : maritime heritage and the founding of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / Kevin Littlewood and Beverley Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Littlewood, Kevin, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Maritime Museum (Great Britain).
- National Maritime Museum--History.
- Local Subjects:
- National Maritime Museum--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 275 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press and the National Maritime Museum ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the United States, Canada, and South America by Transaction Publishers, 1998.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Navy Displayed 1
- Chapter 2 Sons of the Wave 33
- Chapter 3 In Trust for the Nation 51
- Chapter 4 The Voyage Out 73
- Chapter 5 Resolution in a Gale 95
- Chapter 6 Reconstruction 119
- Chapter 7 Of Ships and Stars 143
- Chapter 8 Sea-Changes 158
- Afterword: Thirty Years Later / Roger Knight (Deputy Director, NMM) 194.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0485115379
- 0485121468
- OCLC:
- 39800560
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